Office 2013 on Demand via Office 365 - Grid User Post

Office 2013 on Demand via Office 365 - Grid User Post

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You are going to a meeting to deliver a proposal to a potential client. You’ve confidently gone to that meeting “Device-Commando-Style,” meaning you’re carrying only the proposal and your smartphone. “Weapon and Ammo,” no tablet, no notebook. Your intention was to make a brief visit and leave the proposal with your client.

While reading through the proposal with your client, you both agree to make a change to the document. Your client agrees to let you use their computer to make the change. You could alter the document by logging into SharePoint Online, where it is saved, and use Word Web App from directly from the browser. But the change requires a few more features than what’s available in the Web App.

You need to use ‘Find and Replace’ to correct the business name.

You want to save the altered document as a PDF to give an electronic copy to your client.

You want to maintain version control, keeping the altered version with the original.

Enter Office on Demand

Office on Demand “provides online access to full rich Office desktop applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, when you’re using a PC that doesn’t have the latest version of Office installed locally.” – Extract from “Use Office on Demand“

Watch how Office on Demand works in the video below. This demo was recorded on my wife’s Windows 7 Home Premium laptop, currently running Office 2007. Rather than set up Office 2007 and connect it to my Office 365 account and SharePoint resources, I used Office on Demand.

When to use Office on Demand

On a PC that you don’t use regularly (you don’t want to use up one of your 5 permissible subscription licenses, for example).

On a PC where you don’t have admin rights to perform an installation (you’re using a borrowed computer, for example).

On a PC at home if your IT administrator has disabled your ability to manage your installations (you’d like to install Office, but this option is not available).